January 2012
19 posts
Give it up, Springsteen, Tom Waits will always...
Watchliberalsarecool:
Mitt The Ripper
The super PAC founded by Stephen Colbert, and now under the leadership of Jon Stewart, has released its first ad in South Carolina attacking Mitt Romney for his work at Bain Capital.
Money quote: “As head of Bain Capital he bought companies, carved them up, and got rid of what he couldn’t use. If Mitt Romney really believes ‘Corporation are people, my...
“In dreams you don’t have to make any distinctions between things. Not at all....”
– Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via heartnoodle)
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via karriet)
December 2011
22 posts
“Streams and mountains never stay the same.”
– Gary Snyder, from “Endless Streams and Mountains” (via the-final-sentence)
How Office Politics Could Take Down Europe →
In 30-minutes, I have lost all sympathy for Greece in the euro-crisis.
And it wasn’t very high to begin with.
This Actually Happened
“In an essay in the New Republic in 1933, Max Eastman derided Hemingway as ‘wearing false hair on his chest.’ Enraged by Eastman’s remark, Hemingway stormed into the New Republic’s office to display his own hairy chest and then ripped open Eastman’s shirt to reveal a hairless chest.”
- Aaron Latham, “Machismo.”
Finals, the Descent into Madness OST - “None...
Ringing in the Christmas Season...
…By laboring over Spanish poems that ruminate about how swell death must be.
#FinalsStruggles
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything,...”
– (via journalofanobody)
Stalin and Saxophones
Today I learned Stalin tried to ban the saxophone from Russia in the 1920s, on the grounds that it was subversive.
Academia has given me so much.
“As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via joycesu)
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not...”
– (via journalofanobody)
November 2011
32 posts
“In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and...”
– ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast (via emltea)
“I don’t want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (Spring 1919)
